ottawadweller
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Has occupancy started? Walked by the project the other day at nighttime and the lower floors had lights on.
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innsertnamehere
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the north residential buildings are occupied from my understanding, yes.
UtakataNoAnnex
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I'm also not sure the person meant kerning or tracking here. As I don't see any awkward spaces between any of the letters (kerning), while the spacing between all letters (tracking) appears to be fine...so the latter maybe an issue of personal taste. /shrug
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Mar 14, 2023
westtoeast
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Updated screenshots from the leasing brochure posted without commentary:
daptive
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Tenant list reads closely to a suburban strip mall…
UrbanOzz
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i'd say it's a slight step above. but yea, there are the usual suspects in there. I think that's the reality these days of these retail spaces within new buildings. you can sort of guess who is going to afford it and put a location in there.
ProjectEnd
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A Scarborough, Rexdale or Brampton strip mall would have far tastier and more unique food offerings than what's going in here. If you want truly good food in the GTA, it's not downtown where you'll find it...
UtakataNoAnnex
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What's The National? ...that sounds CBC or Conrad Black. >.<
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Niklas
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um, there are a lot of great restaurants with great food downtown
evandyk
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There are, but for true variety and unique offerings, suburban strip malls are the places to go.
karledice
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Sure but they are in Scarborough, Rexdale or Brampton 
Sunnyside
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I wouldn’t say immediately downtown; you gotta head out to the fine-grained streets just outside the core to get away from the corporate or premium-looking-but-bland fare.
Old Toronto has that variety of strip malls but in a denser environment… you could walk for hours being surrounded by great eats and pick any of them. It has spontaneity on its side.
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True but what did you expect? I like the building (and walk past it quite often) but it is poorly connected to transit and if you want to open a 'specialised" or 'one-off' store I would think you would want to be near transit so it was easy to get to for everyone.
innsertnamehere
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the only 5 tenants that overlap with a typical strip mall are the three banks, Indigo, and Shoppers Drug Mart really..
A lot of these are smaller chains, yes, but they are smaller chains which are relatively unique in the Toronto market.
Small local mom and pop type places can't post the rents in brand new spaces like this, ultimately. This is pretty close to what I originally imagined the tenant list to be. It was never going to be a regional shopping centre, nor was it going to be filled with little mom and pop shops serving up cheap dim sum or the like.
To me the big disappointments are leasing out a lot of the upper level to office tenants and giving all the restaurants over to a single operator.